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Knowledge Building on Women in Clean Energy

Venue: Rome, Italy

Dates: 11 April 2018

Organiser: IEA / ENEA

Contact Email: cecilia.tam@iea.org

Background

Approved by the member countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in June 2017, the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Technology Collaborative Program (C3E-TCP) aims to strengthen the role of women in clean energy sector (renewable energies, energy efficiency and low carbon technologies) which remains one of the most gender imbalanced sector.

Removing barriers toward women’s active participation in sectors where they typically have been under-represented, such as the clean energy sector, requires the implementation of concrete actions in specific areas, as they are indicated by C3E TCP: knowledge, career development, awards programmes and dialogue. State-of-the-art knowledge represents a key point in the decision making process. Currently, there is only limited gender-disaggregated data regarding the clean energy sector and there is limited knowledge about how to make the sector more gender balanced.

This workshop, hosted by Italy in collaboration with the IEA, aims to share experiences on data collection and methods of assessment to analyse gender diversity as well as the employment opportunities to women offered by the energy transition.

The involvement of Governments, international organisations, private companies, education and research institutions allows us to identify priorities and recommendations to overcome the gender gap in the clean energy sector.

SESSION 6 – Presentation of a new C3E campaign on public-private framework for gender diversityThe participants will have the opportunity to react to the proposal from C3E on setting up a new framework to help guide actions relating to gender-diversity for companies, governments, and organizations in the energy sector.Moderator: Per-Anders Widell, Vice Chair C3E TCP, Deputy Director, Ministry of the Environment and Energy (Sweden), Annette Hollas, Chair C3E TCP, Manager, International Engagement, Natural Resources (Canada)